Groningen
Custom software development in Groningen
You are probably paying for three tools that half fit, with a spreadsheet holding them together. At some point that costs more than having something built that actually fits.
I build custom software for companies in Groningen and across the Netherlands: client portals, booking systems, internal tools and dashboards. You talk to the developer who writes the code, from the first sketch until long after launch.
When custom software is the right call
Custom is the right answer when your process genuinely differs from everyone else's, when you spend more time moving data between systems than doing the work itself, or when growth is being held back by software that will not bend.
It is the wrong answer when something off the shelf would genuinely do the job. I will say so — a project that should not have been built is a loss for both of us.
What you get
A fixed price agreed before we start, with nothing invoiced after the fact. Something working to look at every week, on a private preview link. At handover: the full source code, the documentation and the keys.
Built in Laravel, which is deliberately boring. It is the most widely known PHP framework there is, so you are never dependent on one particular person to keep it running.
A developer who is actually in Groningen
I am in Groningen, and I am happy to come to you if you are in the city or elsewhere in the northern Netherlands. For clients further away it works just as well remotely — most of my projects run that way.
That is the difference from the national firms that also rank for this search. They have a page about Groningen; they do not have an office in it.
What custom software costs in Groningen
A client portal or a booking system starts at €7.500. A smaller internal tool starts at €5.000. Both are scoped per project, and you get a fixed price in the proposal before any code is written.
If you only need a second opinion or a one-off fix, that is €95 an hour with an estimate first — you do not have to buy a project to get help.
Common questions
- Do you only work in Groningen?
- No. Groningen is where I am and where I can visit in person, but most projects run remotely for clients across the Netherlands.
- Who owns the code when it is finished?
- You do, completely. The source, the documentation and the accounts are handed over, and any competent Laravel developer can pick it up from there.
- What if custom is not the right answer?
- Then I say so in the first conversation, before anyone has spent anything. Sometimes a two-week change to what you already have beats a three-month rebuild.
Curious what your system would cost?
Send a short description of where you are getting stuck. You will get an honest estimate back — and if custom software is not the right route for you, you will hear that too.